Four years after Hassel Bacchus took up the pioneering role of Digital Transformation Minister, the 2025 budget could not identify any completed transformation project that’s positively affected citizens.
The e-ID system, a proposed government cloud and the implementation of a cybersecurity strategy have attracted the largest budget allocation to the MDT at $50 million.
In September 2020, Colm Imbert partially reversed a tax regime imposed in January 2016, soon after he took office.
A reimagining of the TT economy with a projection to 2030 will have a role for the petroleum sector, but it’s one that should be increasingly relegated to providing cheap energy for diversification initiatives.
